Moroccan International Championships

Moroccan International Championships
Championnats Internationaux Marocains
Defunct tennis tournament
TourILTF Circuit (1924-1974)
Founded1924; 101 years ago (1924)
Abolished1974; 51 years ago (1974)
LocationMorocco
SurfaceClay

The Moroccan International Championships[1] or Championnats Internationaux Marocains was a men's and women's international clay court tennis tournament founded in 1925 as the Moroccan Championships or Championnats du Maroc. The tournament first held in Casablanca, Morocco. It was held annually until 1974 when it was discontinued as part of the worldwide ILTF Circuit.

History

In 1924 the Moroccan Championships were first held in Casablanca, Morocco. The tournament continued to staged annually through to the second world war then was suspended. In 1950 the tournament resumed under a new brand name the Moroccan International Championships. The tournament was mainly held in Casablanca, but was also staged in Rabat in 1933, 1937, 1939 and 1950. The championships ran annually through till 1974 when they were discontinued as part of the worldwide ILTF Circuit.

Finals

Men's singles

Notes: two versions of the tournament was held in * February (59) & April (62) ** November (59, 62).[2][3]

(Incomplete roll)
Moroccan Championships
1930 France Christian Boussus France Maxime "Max" Combemale 6-2 6-3
1936[4] France Christian Boussus France Jean Lesueur 6-4, 6–0, 6-2
1937 France Christian Boussus Sweden Kalle Schröder 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-8 6-2
1939 France Mr. Lasson Sweden Kalle Schröder 7-5 6-2 6-0
1940/1945 Not held (due to World War II)
Moroccan International Championships
1950 Australia Geoffrey Brown United States Fred Kovaleski 5-7 6-1 6-4
1951 France Paul Rémy France Maurice Bendayan 6-2 6-0 7-5
1956 France Henri Chabance[5] Morocco Pierre Forget 8-6 6-4 6-2
1957 Morocco Pierre Forget[6] France Jean Pierre Bergerat[7] 6-3 3-6 6-2 10-8
1959* United Kingdom Mike Davies France Robert Haillet 6-3 1-6 7-5
1959** Italy Nicola Pietrangeli France Gérard Pilet 6-4 6-3 6-4
1960[8] Spain Manuel Santana Italy Giuseppe Merlo 1-6 6-4 6-4 6-4
1961 West Germany Wilhelm Bungert Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Boro Jovanović 7-5 2-6 6-3 3-6 6-2
1962* Hungary István Gulyás West Germany Ingo Buding 10-8 6-4 6-2
1962** Morocco Lahcen Chadli Morocco Mohammed-Haibabi Bouchaib[9] 6-1 6-0 6-2
1963 Australia Roy Emerson West Germany Ingo Buding 6-8 7-5 6-3 6-4
1964 Australia Martin Mulligan Hungary István Gulyás 6-4 6-2 6-3
1965 Morocco Ben Ali Ahmed Morocco Ali Laroussi[10] 1-6 6-4 7-5 4-6 7-5
1968 Greece Nicholas Kalogeropoulos Australia Allan Stone 6-1 4-6 6-3 6-4
1968 France Michel Leclercq France Daniel Contet 2-6 7-5 6-2
Open era
1969 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Željko Franulović Australia Barry Phillips-Moore 2-6 6-1 6-2 6-3
1970 West Germany Hans-Jürgen Pohmann Morocco Ali Laroussi[11] 6-3 6-4 6-2
1971 Romania Ion Țiriac France François Jauffret 7-6 6-0 6-3
1974 France Éric Deblicker France Jean-Claude Barclay 7-5 6-1 6-3

Women's singles

(Incomplete roll)

Moroccan Championships
1925[12] French Protectorate in Morocco Mme Neville French Protectorate in Morocco Mme Rebourseau 6-1, 3–6, 6-1
1933 French Protectorate in Morocco Mlle Matia French Protectorate in Morocco Mme Lannefranque 6-2, 6-1
1939 French Protectorate in Morocco Mme Follweider French Protectorate in Morocco Mme Lannefranque 6-4, 6-2
1940/1945 Not held (due to World War II)
Moroccan International Championships
1951 Switzerland Ruth Nathan Kaufmann French Protectorate in Morocco Mlle Pilon Fleury 6-3, 3–6, 8-6
1954 France Maud Galtier France Michelle Bourbonnais 6-3, 6-2
1956 Morocco Jacqueline Morales French Protectorate in Morocco Mlle Roy 6-1, 6-1
1959 France Márta Popp Morocco Jacqueline Morales 5-7, 6–2, 6-3
1960[13] United Kingdom Ann Haydon France Jacqueline Rees-Lewis 6-0, 6-2
1961 Italy Silvana Lazzarino West Germany Helga Schultze 6-2, 6-3
1962 Italy Lea Pericoli Italy Silvana Lazzarino 10-8, 3–6, 6-1
1963 Australia Jan Lehane Brazil Maria Bueno 6-3, 6-2
1964 France Françoise Dürr Australia Robyn Ebbern 6-4, 6-3
1968 Australia Gail Sherriff United States Alice Tym 6-1, 6-4
Open era
1969 United States Alice Tym Argentina Graciela Morán 6-3, 6-1
1970 France Jacqueline Morales Lecaillon (2) Australia Jenny Staley Hoad 3-6, 7–5, 6-0
1971 Australia Wendy Gilchrist Belgium Michèle Gurdal 6-2, 7-5

See also

References

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